Chapter 13 This is no coincidence

【Currently owed: 27 Joy Coins, 1 holographic projector, 72 decorative rivets, 2 belly studs, 3 earrings, 3 butt studs, 1 high-end genuine leather belt, 1 exquisite lining, and 1 high-end lighter.】

【Signature: Mu Liang.】

Lan Yuzai held the IOU and almost burst into tears.

That’s one point!

That’s a whopping amount!

Was he robbed?

Was he sure he had been robbed?

If his tattoos could be removed, would they also be traded for them?

After removing his unnecessary decorations, Lan Yuzai, who looked more serious, stood in the corner of the 46th-floor shopping street, pulling up his pants.

He turned to look at Mu Liang, who was enthusiastically carrying large and small bags of things, and wanted to speak but didn’t know how to complain.

Yeah… He was already captured by this big shot and beaten into submission… The big shot stripped him naked and sold him off like a pig, which is reasonable according to the rules of the lower city and their gangster world.

Lan Yuzai silently looked up at the ceiling, tears streaming down his face.

“Let’s go!”

Wang Jixuan threw over a nylon rope he had picked up from the roadside:

“Go find a place to stay, preferably a cheap inn.”

Lan Yuzai followed along eagerly.

He clearly sensed that after his massive hemorrhage, the boss’s attitude towards him had softened!

Learning new skills is just around the corner!

“Hey bro, what’s an inn?”

“It’s… a hotel.”

“Shall we go to a hotel? That’s a bit too suggestive, isn’t it? Hey, hey, boss, don’t hit me, I’m being a smart aleck!”

A few minutes later, Lan Yuzai, his eyes swollen with dark circles, dejectedly led Wang Jixuan to the cheap hotel where he had previously stayed.

Lan Yuzai already has reasonable suspicions;

This big shot just wanted to keep beating him up, to vent his anger and get revenge for the time six months ago when he and his gang stole his food rations!

The problem is…

Why did this big shot seem so easy to bully before?

Lan Yuzai found this hard to understand, and when he entered the cheap hotel, he habitually held his head high and puffed out his chest.

The old man sitting behind the counter instinctively gripped the pistol on the corner of the table, then smiled and greeted him warmly:

“One room, three nights, one Happy Coin. This is the cheapest place in Happy City. Each room is equipped with a high-strength alloy door that can withstand the bombardment of a single rocket launcher.”

“There are no spare keys for any of the rooms!”

Wang Jixuan took out two thumb-sized coins that he had just exchanged at the shop.

The old man accepted it with a smile.

“Two rooms or one room? One, okay… Here are a few reminders: all appliances in the room require coins to operate. Here is your key.”

Lan Yuzai rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath, “Shady businessman.”

Wang Jixuan didn’t think much of it at first, but when he saw the automatic flush tank in the corner bathroom of the suite, which was designated as an appliance, he frowned.

A cunning merchant.

…

Two-thirds of the territory on the 46th floor is occupied by the Joy City gang.

The 【Joy City】 gang is said to have a very deep background, backed by the Upper City forces, and has a good relationship with the Silver Party on the same floor. The Silver Party even takes the initiative to provide Joy City with protection and supply combat personnel.

To create a safe and enjoyable atmosphere, the area occupied by the City of Joy has a generally good level of public security. This is a large entertainment venue in the fortress, which is roughly divided into a gambling area, a dance hall area, a shop area, a perverted area, and a sanatorium area.

Wang Jixuan and his group were currently located on the transition zone between the gambling district and the nightclub district.

The emergency food they brought was enough to last the two of them for four or five days; Lan Yuzai’s accumulated Joy Coins could also be used to purchase a considerable amount of survival resources.

The most expensive items here are some entertainment services.

After settling in temporarily, Wang Jixuan immediately began making talismans.

To avoid revealing his secret, he specially used a wooden box to create a simple partition.

He did not restrict Lan Yuzai’s movement within the house, but only asked Lan Yuzai to keep quiet and not to leave the house at will.

Then… Wang Jixuan began to be disturbed by Lan Yuzai’s snoring.

‘How can this guy sleep like that?! Wasn’t he being held hostage by me?!’

Wang Jixuan shook his head inwardly.

Fortunately, the talisman-making process went smoothly overall.

Paper soaked in the blood of a dead beast for several hours and then dried can be used as basic talisman paper.

After the blood of the Blade Beast is boiled thickened with an alcohol lamp, it becomes a simple spiritual liquid.

Wang Jixuan dipped his finger in the spiritual liquid and eagerly wrote the first talisman on a strip of pink spiritual paper.

Exploding Fire Talisman!

One stroke is all it takes!

As the talisman was first completed, the marks on it began to shimmer faintly, and wisps of spiritual energy gathered from the air and seeped into the marks on the talisman.

The talisman floated up slowly, trembled slightly, and was then pressed down by Wang Jixuan’s palm.

A wisp of internal energy swirls around it, sealing off the gathered spiritual energy, and this paper talisman can remain intact for about a month.

This talisman can be attached to various objects to detonate, or it can be thrown out to create a fireball. Because the spiritual energy in the air is relatively thin, Wang Jixuan does not know the specific power of the talisman.

He glanced at the gang leader in the corner who had started picking his nose upside down…

Although Wang Jixuan wanted to continue to avenge Mu Liang, he had indeed taught this scoundrel a lesson many times, so he would let him off the hook for now.

Wang Jixuan drew twenty-four talismans in one go, and only stopped making talismans when he had used up more than half of his internal energy.

Close your eyes, concentrate your mind, and focus on the One.

Wang Jixuan began meditating and cultivating, quickly restoring his internal energy.

During this process of consumption and recovery, his total internal energy was increasing slightly, and his meridians were being continuously expanded.

Wang Jixuan was very fortunate that his body’s primordial yang energy had not been lost, which greatly increased his cultivation speed.

He needs at least five days to make two hundred talismans, mainly talismans for speed, fire, vajra, slowing force, and stopping bleeding. He also needs to prepare a few other talismans for self-defense, such as talismans for avoiding miasma, water, fire, and ghosts.

In this fortress where day and night are indistinguishable, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Lan Yuzai finally couldn’t help but ask, “Hey, what exactly are we doing here?”

“Preparing for the battle of wits.”

Wang Jixuan looked up and glanced at him.

This guy really… does nothing but eat and sleep, or just lie in bed spacing out, perfectly embodying the life principles of a fish.

Lan Yuzai raised his hand to stroke his chin and muttered softly, “Boss, are you really going to take revenge on the Black Fire Gang?”

“Before I went to find you, I took care of two henchmen from the Blackfire Gang. This pistol was stolen from them.”

Wang Jixuan brandished the pistol beside him and continued tidying up the talismans he had already made.

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He sewed it himself, adding more than a dozen pockets to the lining to store the talismans in different categories for easy access.

Wang Jixuan added, “Before I go to them, I will lock you in a place and leave you enough food to last for a few days.”

“ah?”

Lan Yuzai’s fish eyes widened:

“You’re really going to go after the Blackfire Gang? Holy crap, you’re awesome! The Blackfire Gang has over a thousand henchmen! They might not be the largest of the seven gangs in terms of numbers, but their business is the biggest, they have deep connections, they’re ruthless, and their territory even has those laser cannons you only see in movies!”

Wang Jixuan became interested and asked with a smile, “What is a laser cannon?”

“It’s just… I’m really bad at physics, dude!”

Lan Yuzai smiled wryly:

“Putting everything else aside, the seven major gangs each maintain a few snipers who can blow someone’s head off from hundreds of meters away. It’s said that each sniper is a big shot, and they are the real killing machine of the city!”

“The pistols we can get are easy to miss beyond ten meters, they jam if not properly maintained, and they can’t even penetrate ordinary bulletproof vests… It’s a completely different story.”

Wang Jixuan retorted, “If they want to kill me, why can’t I kill them?”

How far can you throw a nut cap?

“Thirty zhang… roughly a hundred meters, and within a hundred meters it can penetrate a thick wooden board.”

Wang Jixuan explained simply.

His current cultivation level is too low; if he were any further away, the wisp of energy attached to the nut would dissipate.

Lan Yuzai asked, “So, how many can you throw in a row, boss?”

“Thirty or forty.”

“Then you can only handle thirty or forty people at most!”

Lan Yuzai smiled bitterly:

“Two fists can’t beat four hands. No matter how strong you are, you’re still just one person. But then again, if the Black Fire Gang wants to kill you, you really have nowhere to run… Why don’t you just grant my wish and I’ll sell you to them for a reward, hehehe.”

Wang Jixuan’s eyes turned colder, and he slightly bent his fingers.

Lan Yuzai instinctively crouched down by the bed, clutching his head, and hurriedly said, “Just kidding! Just kidding! I’m your little brother now! How could a little brother betray his big brother!”

Wang Jixuan snorted, his gaze fixed on the pistol, and began to think carefully.

He may need more than just talismans; he may need more of these ingenious devices.

Lan Yuzai added in a low voice, “And it’s not just guns, they also have a lot of bombs, those are the really powerful ones.”

“A bomb?” Wang Jixuan asked softly.

As he was speaking, the window behind him, which was two-thirds blocked by an iron plate, was illuminated by light.

Suddenly, a ball of fire appeared at high speed in the corner of the window, moving from afar and landing outside the street!

Lan Yuzai stared wide-eyed and opened his mouth, but before he could say anything.

boom!

The room’s glass shattered instantly, the partition was pushed aside, and a wave of heat rushed into the room.

The explosion occurred right outside on the street!

Lan Yuzai was hit in the face by a flying piece of glass, letting out two screams of pain. Before he could shout any more, he saw a figure flash in front of him, and then he felt his arm being pulled up, surrounded by a sharp buzzing sound.

Gunshots rang out outside the window, like beans popping!

Snap!

Lan Yuzai was slapped sober up instantly.

He shook his head, staring blankly at Wang Jixuan in front of him under the emergency light in the bathroom.

Wang Jixuan was not injured at the moment. The cubicle he had made earlier had blocked most of the glass shards, but he was inevitably covered in dust and dirt.

Master Wang frowned and pulled the glass out of Lan Yuzai’s face. Before Lan Yuzai could scream, he quickly pointed a finger and took out a hemostatic talisman, sticking it on Lan Yuzai’s neck.

Lan Yuzai suddenly felt that his wound had become very warm.

“Dude…the gangs are fighting…we have to run…”

“There’s a gunfight outside,” Wang Jixuan said. “It’s a little safer here. Don’t move. I’ve already stopped the bleeding.”

“well……”

Wang Jixuan got up and went inside. Because of the explosion on the street, the power was out and the house was in a mess.

He picked up the pistol from among the shards of glass and, following the method he had figured out over the past few days, opened the magazine to check the remaining five bullets.

Wang Jixuan glanced at the street, which was churning with noise, and sighed slightly.

‘External threats include monstrous beasts, while internal threats lead to self-destruction.’

Just as he was about to turn and leave, he heard someone shouting through a megaphone on the street:

“Black Fire Gang! Are you crazy?! Captain Zhou is here to negotiate! This is Joy City’s territory!”

Blackfire Gang?

Captain Zhou?

Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

Master Wang peered out the window for a while, and without much hesitation, he stuck two talismans on the outside of his thighs, then flipped over and jumped off the third floor!